Publication: Lebanon's Invisible Inexorability: Destruction & Architecture
| dc.contributor.advisor | Anwandter, Juan | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Aquilar, Giorgia | |
| dc.contributor.author | Zeineddine, Karim | |
| dc.contributor.department | Architecture (BA) | |
| dc.contributor.other | Berlin International University of Applied Sciences | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-12-09T09:23:02Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-12-09T09:23:02Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2025 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Beirut, a city that has been shattered time and time again, yet never ceases to rise. A city with little patience, yet boundless resilience. A city where destruction is familiar, but sorrow lingers in the cracks of its streets, in the silence of its buildings. This proposal seeks to understand that sorrow, not to erase it, but to transform it. At its core, this thesis examines destruction, reconstruction, resilience, and memory as interwoven forces. It is structured across four main categories: Obliteration-Destruction, Palingenesis- Reconstruction, Inexorability-Resilience, and Memento-Memory. Each category is explored through three layers. The first, Critical History, dissects historical instances of destruction through a philosophical and theoretical lens, questioning how past societies have confronted loss and renewal. The second, Beirut and its People, traces the city’s repeated cycles of devastation; civil war, port explosion, Israeli War, analyzing not just how the city was rebuilt, but how its people endured, coped, and carried their grief. The third, Healing through Space, moves from analysis to action, exploring how architecture, through spatial elements, materiality, and layouts, can foster both personal and collective healing. Some may claim that erasure offers its own form of healing, one that is swift and quiet, a way to outrun the weight of loss. In the brief passage of time, it soothes, allowing a city to rise again, unburdened by its wounds. But grief does not dissolve in silence, nor does trauma fade when buried beneath new foundations. Without spaces to hold sorrow, without walls that whisper remembrance, the past remains, unspoken, unresolved, and inherited. This project does not seek to rebuild what was lost as if it never shattered; it seeks to shape a city that does not merely endure destruction but learns to heal within it. | |
| dc.description.degree | BA | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://repository.berlin-international.de/handle/123456789/1147 | |
| dc.subject | Post-War Reconstruction | |
| dc.subject | Destruction | |
| dc.subject | Reconstruction | |
| dc.subject | Trauma | |
| dc.subject | Urban Healing | |
| dc.title | Lebanon's Invisible Inexorability: Destruction & Architecture | |
| dc.type | Thesis | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication |